Unsurprisingly, this gem recognizes her for what she is almost immediately. It may help that she introduced herself as Lapis Lazuli, thus making it unquestionably clear what she is, but even so… They understand despite the apparent differences between them that Lapis is quickly made aware of.
A different ‘species?’ The word is only vaguely familiar to her, as are so many of the Earth terms and concepts that Steven has explained to her over time. She gets the gist of it, though, or so she believes. “I don’t think being made on different planets makes us different ‘species.’” She herself is no different from any other gem of her kind, after all, regardless of where they were made.
“Wait. You don’t even know what Homeworld is?” That’s… unprecedented. Unheard of, even. “What kind of gem doesn’t know about Homeworld? Who are you?”
“ And I’m going to assume that you don’t know what the Beach of Beginnings is, ” they retort, their posture stiffening defensively. Then they remind themselves: just as they have yet to understand her culture, she doesn’t understand theirs. They force their shoulders to drop, lest she take their body language as a sign of hostility. “ Like I said, we may both refer to ourselves as ‘gems’, but I don’t believe we’re the same type of gem. At least, that’s the conclusion I came to after meeting another one of your kind. ”
“ For instance, your gem. It’s... a single stone of lapis lazuli located on your body, right? ” Where it may be located, they wouldn’t know, for she doesn’t appear to have it in the same spot as Rose Quartz did. How curious. “ My body is composed of my namesake, Cinnabar. From what I understand of the gems born on Homeworld, your physical body would instead be a... projection, of sorts? ”
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